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News & Blogs Video shows 12 year old with toy gun shot within seconds of police arriving

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-cleveland-cop-shoot-12-year-old-tamir-rice-n256656

Cleveland police have released surveillance video that shows a 12-year-old boy walking around with and waving a pellet gun and then being fatally shot by a rookie officer seconds after he arrived on the scene.

The black-and-white video is grainy, and the boy's movements appear jerky and are hard to decipher at times. But he can been seen pacing on the sidewalk of Cudell Recreation Center, the silhouette of his Airsoft pistol plainly visible at times.

A 911 caller, who was sitting in a nearby gazebo, told police several times that the weapon was probably a fake, but the dispatcher did not relay that information to the responding officers, referring to it only as "a gun," police tapes show. Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said the officers believed they were on a "gun run."

The caller eventually left, and Tamir sat down in the gazebo before Officers Timothy Loehman, 26, and Frank Garmback, 46, pulled up in a squad car.

There is no audio but Tomba said Loehman, who was in the passenger seat and who had been on the force only since March, yelled at the boy three times to show his hands as the car neared the gazebo.

Police circled a frame of the video in red that shows Tamir moving his hand — apparently to signal the moment they say the youth reached for the pellet gun.

Loehman shot him immediately after leaving his police car, at a distance of about 10 feet, the video shows. Then he ducked behind the car as Garmback, a training officer with eight years on the force, jumped out of his seat.
 
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It is pretty unfortunate that this happened. If it ever went to court, you'd hear alot about "officer safety" and "I relied on my training".

I always think that cops who pull right up on somebody with a gun like they did here remove much of their opportunity to de-escalate.
 

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